Joshua 5:4

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with the great majority of them, for they were overthrown and strewn down along [the ground] in the wilderness. [Num. 14:29, 30.]

Deuteronomy 2:16

So when all the men of war had died from among the people,

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we had come over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested and proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.